At least seven people were wounded Sunday by gunfire shot from a passing Palestinian vehicle near Ofra Junction in the West Bank: a 21-year-old pregnant woman was seriously wounded; her husband and another victim were moderately wounded; and four 16-year-old teens were lightly wounded.
The shots were fired towards Israeli civilians who took part in a candle-lighting ceremony in memory of a car accident victim, at a bus station near the junction. IDF troops who were present nearby responded by firing towards the suspect vehicle, which fled.
IDF troops are currently searching the area. The Commanding Officer of the Judea and Samaria Division, Brig. Gen. Eran Niv, is present at the scene.
The report was received by an MDA team at 9:25pm. MDA paramedics with the assistance of the IDF Medical Corps, provided medical treatment to the victims, which were later evacuated to hospitals in Jerusalem.
The pregnant woman, who was seriously wounded and suffered from gunshot wounds to her upper body, and another victim, a 21-year-old male who was moderately wounded, were evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
The woman’s baby has since been delivered in good condition.
The mother is currently being operated on.
Dr. Alon Schwarz, a trauma surgeon at Shaare Zedek Medical Center said that the doctors had delivered the young woman’s baby, and admitted the baby into the neonatal intensive care unit. Since the young woman lost a lot of blood, the doctor added, her life is still in danger.
Prayers are requested for Shira Yael bat Leora Sarah, a pregnant woman in critical condition post terror attack near Ofra, and Amichai Yishai ben Feiga Gittel Galila.
The Baby was delivered by Emergency Ceaserian, was was in a critical condition, and is in a very serious condition.
I am tired of hearing about attacks on Jews every week in israel when if the right action is taken,things would be different. You have a lefty secular Supreme Court that is pro Arab. Even the secular Jews in Israel are increasingly not sending their kids to the army. They see the fat cat politicians use the army for their heir own benefits and will throw the hard working soldiers under the bus if it means looking good in the eyes of the spineless Europeans. Soldiers have to fight with one hand tied behind their backs. Allowing Jews to be… Read more »
As you Brooklynites say: fuggedaboudit. We have a government that goes after the Hilltop Youth, arrests & convicts soldiers for killing terrorists, demolishes houses of Terrorists (big whoop) & watches as they re-build bigger & better! Better yet, they were still sending supplies in to Gaza while we were being bombarded with rockets a couple of weeks ago!
It won’t stop until we get a PM with a spine & we cut off EVERYTHING to Gaza. That includes free electricity & water. My electric & water bills are huge but if *I* don’t pay, they get cut off..
Calm down #2
There are quite a few frum men in the IDF who protect eretz yisroel and the nation. So stop right there. We owe them a lot of praise and thanks so stop making blanket statements like that. Act like a chossid
Who gave 50 thousand guns to the PLO.
Rabin and Perez. The two devils.
And this and previous israeli governments release hundreds of terrorists who have murdered Jews but Jews who killed Arabs have to sit for life. Our enemies are from within. Jewish hood is cheap. They want to take Yeshiva boys into their secular army which promotes deviant lifestyles. No religious Jew should allow their young kids to be in an army run by atheists.
a driver and shooter, probably just riding around looking for the right opportunity & sadly they found one.